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I am hiring a clinical research assistant for a project on adolescent cannabis use that will use MRI 🧠 and behavioral tasks 🎮 More information is available in the link below, and applicants can send a CV and cover letter to me. Please share—thank you! tinyurl.com/msn8h2ce

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I am hiring a clinical research assistant for a project on adolescent cannabis use that will use MRI 🧠 and behavioral tasks 🎮 More information is available in the link below, and applicants can send a CV and cover letter to me. Please share—thank you! tinyurl.com/msn8h2ce

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

Please comment. The Administration is trying to turn the NIH IC Directors and program staff roles into political appointees that serve at the whim of the President. Imagine if each change in administration brought sweeping changes in professional NIH staff across your favorite ICs.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 32 days ago • 127 comments

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

submitted 33 days ago • 27 comments

I hope this isn’t true. We all need to contact our elected officials and get them to do more to support research right now

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

submitted 38 days ago • 23 comments

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

submitted 46 days ago • 55 comments

Contact your Representative and Senators & urge them to support investments in NSF and NIH. The Administration’s proposed cuts to these vital agencies will harm #science and hinder our prosperity, health, and well-being. www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 54 days ago • 27 comments

A 50% cut to science funding (which is close to what Trump is proposing for NIH) would result in huge negative long-term economic outcomes: 7.6% cut in GDP 8.6% cut in federal revenues *equivalents of making the average American $10,000 poorer

submitted 55 days ago • 11 comments

Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment... www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments

A scientist who is used to organizing data starts tracking scientific meetings that seem to exist only on paper. The NIH website shows one reality; the empty conference rooms tell another story. link.podtrac.com/2ly1unpx

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Please consider making a public comment opposing the possibility of making NIH directors, program officers, and other staff (e.g. SRO, GMS) political appointees. This only took me ~90 seconds. Please repost. Thanks 👍

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments

Introducing a new tool from @tsbolt.bsky.social, find-viz (FMRI Interactive Navigation and Discovery Viewer)! It’s a browser-based visualization tool built with one purpose in mind: get researchers to spend more time looking at their fMRI data 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Make sure your less-than-plugged-in friends know that the House passed the SAVE Act. I'm seeing women who never post political stuff getting very angry about this online.

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments

Great turnout in Providence today! Hearing estimates of 8-10k; was hard to set a sense of on the ground bc we couldn’t even see to either end of the river of people streaming through the city. Felt good to be in a sea of other humans ready to fight against these injustices! #handsoff

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Feeling particularly grateful to have had the chance to end the #CPA2025 conference and march in the Hands Off! rally today in Providence, RI with thousands of others to continue to stand up for science and public goods. @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #WorldSleepDay! A perfect day to buy my book, Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep—and to remember that without the NIH, many of the amazing advances in sleep science of the past 70 years would never have happened. bit.ly/47v5UQx

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this

submitted 109 days ago • 235 comments

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

submitted 103 days ago • 45 comments

1 week until we Stand Up for Science in RI! 🗓️ Friday, March 7, 12-4pm 📍 RI State House South lawn @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Today's action - contact your MOCs about the Federal Register block! I just used @llparker100.bsky.social's resistbot via SMS and there is a little back and forth for it to collect your info but it went through and I got a receipt message from Sen Markey! resist.bot/petitions/PC...

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

submitted 133 days ago • 58 comments

Every professor/academic on here needs to call their elected officials tomorrow re OBM federal funding pause. Be polite and professional and express your concern. I will be doing this.

submitted 147 days ago • 7 comments

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

submitted 147 days ago • 282 comments

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

submitted 151 days ago • 6 comments

Your biggest power is as a constituent who cares about the issue and may be directly or indirectly affected by them My format is generally: NIH is important for the nation, both in terms of health knowledge and economics/competitiveness 1/n

submitted 152 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone should also call their senators & reps. I called mine this morning to let them know my concern, and it did not seem like they were being flooded by calls. We need to make it very clear the impact this has on science and research, and that this pause is unacceptable. Senate: 202 224-3121

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 152 days ago • 47 comments

The final version of our article is out now: Our cross-sectional study found that adolescents who vaped cannabis as their primary method had a significantly greater likelihood of a suicide attempt 30 days before psychiatric hospitalization, and greater suicidal ideation doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

submitted 203 days ago • 1 comment

The ERA has been ratified by 38 states and met all criteria to become part of the Constitution. But it remains in procedural limbo, awaiting publication. President Biden could take final action on the ERA and secure gender equality in the Constitution. www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 204 days ago • 34 comments

These numbers are one reason NIH has consistently had bipartisan support on the hill and groups such as congressional neuroscience caucus👇 have been, and hopefully remain, influential. So please stay active and ask your professional organizations to interact with your representatives

submitted 218 days ago • 1 comment